Simone Biles Praises Gisèle Pelicot For Shifting Shame From Survivors To Perpetrators

The French journalist Gisèle Pelicot received gratitude from Olympic champion Simone Biles because Pelicot demonstrated that sexual abusers should face public disgrace while their victims should not experience any such emotional burden. Through a video message Biles paid tribute to Pelicot because she herself endured. Biles shows in the video that “Gisèle has demonstrated to…

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Carbonyl swapping converts cyclic ketones to saturated heterocycles

Saturated heterocycles are privileged scaffolds in bioactive molecules.1 Despite the availability of numerous de novo routes to various heterocyclic compounds, accessing diverse heterocycles from a unified, readily available carbocycle would offer a strategic alternative for constructing challenging heterocyclic structures from unconventional precursors.2 Here we report a modular approach that transforms a single cyclic ketone into…

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Google’s Latest AI Update Makes Industrial Robots Way Smarter—Here’s How

In brief Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, an AI model that enables robots to perform industrial tasks through spatial reasoning and embodied intelligence. The model shows 6% text and 10% video improvement in safety hazard identification compared to Gemini 3.0 Flash. Boston Dynamics integrated the technology into its Orbit AIVI-Learning platform, with the update…

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